Overview

• The newly established World Peace Centre hosted its inaugural International Symposium on World Peace, Harmony, and Peace Education on August 31 in New Delhi.
• Ahimsa Vishwa Bharti organised the event under the guidance of Acharya Lokesh Muni at the centre’s new auditorium.
• Delhi Assembly Speaker Vijender Gupta announced a planned tie-up with Stanford University to support educational and cultural exchanges.
• Gupta invoked Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 2022 message that “this is not an era of war” to position India as a Vishva Guru in global peace discourse.
• He praised a peace-education curriculum prepared by Acharya Lokesh and said initiatives like the centre and the Stanford plan strengthen India’s peace diplomacy.